Special Preachers, Priests and Clerics Edition - Assholes of the Week

[donsu]

http://counterpunch.com/krassner08182007.html


This is a special edition of these nominations. They all have to do with religion. Not included here, however, is the massacre of 175 civilians in the Yazidi community in Iraq. The victims were mostly Kurds, though neither Muslim nor Christian, and are considered by some to be a demonic cult whose members don't believe in God. But to label the four suicide bombers as "assholes" would somehow trivialize the unspeakable horror and misery that they have caused. Here, then, are the real Assholes of the Week. Amen.

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(here are just 2 of the 13 assholes)

*Presidential wannabe Tom Tancredo, for asserting that bombing holy Muslim sites would serve as a good "deterrent" to prevent Islamic fundamentalists from attacking the U.S. This notion of a pre-emptive assault made it into a Latino-oriented comic strip, "La Cucaracha" by Lalo Alcaraz: "You're watching 'The U.S.'s Greatest Surprise Attacks' on the Distorted History Channel. Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo issued a top-secret warning: 'The U.S. should nuke Islam's holy places!'" The TV viewer responds, "It is wrong to threaten nations with terror--unless Tom Tancredo does it." In a previous strip, from a car radio: "President Bush has taken to calling himself the inelegant 'Commander Guy.' May we suggest the more graceful 'Dicatator Dude?'"

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*Norway's Princess Martha Louise, for claiming not only that she communicates with angels, but also for her involvement in an alternative school that aims to teach people how to get in touch with angels. Sounds like a sitcom in severe need of a laugh track.

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(there are 5 anti-assholes, here's 1 )

*Journalist Helen Thomas, for calling attention to the "deafening silence" of the Church in regard to the enormities of the Bush administration.
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you will want to read them all

[Bluzmann57]

1. Thanks for the link

Sort of a strange list, especially the congregation who didn't like that damn rock music at their services.

[valerief]

2. Holy crap. I love the "talk to angels" sitcom idea. It would be great

if they spoke in a hurdy-gurdy accent, too.

This, unfortunately, surprised me only because the priest had sex with a woman. At least she didn't get an abortion, because that would be a sin. :sarcasm:
<<*A Mexican priest, Rev. Dagoberto Valle Arriaga, for killing his son. He was afraid that Catholic church officials would remove him from the priesthood if they learned about the child. They suggested that he should've used a theologically correct condom with tiny holes in the reservoir tip so that the spermatazoa would have only a fighting chance to impregnate the mother.>>